THE 

ANNUAL  REPORT 

or  THE 


LIBRARIAN  OF  HARVARD  UNIVERSITY, 

READ  15  JULY,  1864, 


TO  THE 


COMMITTEE  OF  THE  OVERSEERS  APPOINTED 
TO  VISIT  THE  LIBRARY. 


CAMBRIDGE:' 

WELCH,  BIGELOW,  AND  COMPANY, 

PRINTERS  TO  THE  UNIVERSITY.  * 

1865. 


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OF  THE 


UNIVERSITY- of  WISCONSIN 


LIBRARIAN'S  REPORT, 


15  JULY,  1 864. 


Gentlemen  of  the  Committee  for  the 

Annual  Examination  of  the  Library  : — 

In  presenting  to  you  my  Ninth  Annual  Report,  compris- 
ing the  period  from  10  July,  1863,  to  15  July,  1864,  my 
first  thoughts  naturally  turn  to  the  literary  treasures  which 
have  been  poured  into  Gore  Hall  in  consequence  of  the 
Hon.  William  Gray’s  munificent  donation  of  $5,000  annu- 
ally for  the  last  five  years.  The  time  to  which  this,  the 
largest  pecuniary  gift  which  has  ever  been  made  to  the 
Library,  was  limited,  has  expired.  We  part  with  it  as  with 
a strong  arm  on  which  we  leaned,  but  with  profound  grati- 
tude for  the  strength  which  it  has  given  to  every  department 
in  the  Library,  and  for  what  it  has  done,  and  for  ages  to 
come  will  continue  to  do,  for  intellectual  culture  at  the 
University. 

Five  days  after  the  reading  of  my  last  Annual  Report 
we  were  agreeably  surprised  by  the  public  announcement, 
on  Commencement  Hay,  that  Frederick  Athearn  Lane,  an 
enterprising  and  successful  lawyer  of  New  York,  who  was 
graduated  in  1849,  had  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  Corpora- 
tion the  sum  of  $ 5,000,  of  which  the  income  should  be  appro- 
priated to  the  purchase  of  books.  Subsequently  a similar 
sum  for  the  same  purpose  was  bequeathed  by  Dr.  George 
Hayward,  of  Boston,  a graduate  in  1809,  for  many  years  a 
Professor  in  the  Medical  Department  of  the  University, 
and  during  several  of  the  last  years  of  his  life  an  active 
member  of  the  Corporation. 


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George  Washington  Wales,  of  Boston,  whose  name  has 
so  often  been  presented  to  the  Committee  in  connection 
with  the  splendid  library  of  his  brother,  Henry  Ware  Wales, 
of  the  Class  of  1838,  has  added  another  hundred  dollars 
to  his  previous  valuable  gifts,  to  supply  the  wants  of  the 
Wales  collection  and  keep  it  in  good  condition. 

Asaph  Hall,  who  has  been  appointed  Professor  in  the 
U.  S.  Naval  Observatory  at  Washington,  D.  C.,  has  sent  two 
instalments  from  his  salary,  in  grateful  recollection  of  the 
favors  he  received  at  the  Library  during  his  residence  at 
Cambridge  a few  years  ago. 

In  estimating  all  such  free-will  offerings  we  naturally 
look  beyond  their  pecuniary  value  to  the  pleasant  associa- 
tions with  the  University  and  the  Library  by  which  they 
were  prompted. 

To  the  collection  of  coins  and  tokens,  298  have  been 
added  as  gifts.  Of  these,  9 were  received  from  Dr.  Ed- 
ward Jarvis,  of  Dorchester,  of  the  Class  of  1826 ; 29  from 
Mrs.  Olive  Augusta  (Fenno)  Alger,  of  South  Natick ; and 
53  from  Hercules  Warren  Fay,  of  the  Class  of  1862.  One 
hundred  and  eighty- three,  including  4 of  gold  and  123 
of  silver,  were  from  Mrs.  Nathaniel  Appleton  Haven,  Jr., 
of  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  whose  previous  contributions  ‘to  this 
department  and  whose  valuable  gifts  to  the  Library  have 
been  noticed  in  former  Reports,  and  whose  son,  Horace 
Appleton  Haven,  of  the  Class  of  1842,  pure  in  heart  and 
full  of  promise,  lived  but  just  long  enough  to  make  in  his 
own  name  the  bequest  which  for  twenty  years  has  been 
available  as  the  Haven  Fund. 

The  Library  has  received  several  small  engravings,  some 
lithographs,  a few  photographs  of  graduates,  and  the  volume 
containing  the  photographs  of  the  Class  of  1863,  which 
was  presented  by  the  photographer,  George  Kendall  Warren, 
of  Lowell  and  Cambridgeport,  and  elegantly  bound  by  the 
Class. 

The  Hon.  Joseph  Williamson,  of  Belfast,  Maine,  has 


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given  a photograph  of  an  engraved  plate  recently  found  at 
Castine,  where  it  was  deposited  more  than  two  centuries  ago. 

At  the  suggestion  of  the  Rev.  Frederick  West  Holland 
(H.  U.  1831),  His  Royal  Highness  Albert  Edward,  Prince 
of  Wales,  has  sent  a photograph  of  a portion  of  the  very 
ancient  manuscript  of  the  Samaritan  Pentateuch,  which  is 
preserved  in  the  sanctuary  of  the  Samaritans  at  Nablus,  at 
the  foot  of  Mount  Gerizim.  It  was  taken  for  His  Royal 
Highness  at  the  time  of  his  visit  to  Palestine  in  1862. 

Donations  of  books  have  been  made  by  so  many  individ- 
uals, that  the  limits  of  the  Report  render  it  inexpedient  to 
allude  otherwise  than  in  the  appended  List  to  many  which 
are  deserving  of  special  notice. 

Through  Edward  Ellenborougli  Law,  of  Philadelphia 
(H.  U.  1819),  has  been  received  a volume  entitled  66  Trans- 
lations from  the  Classics,  the  French  and  Italian.  By  an 
Idler.  Printed  by  himself  for  himself,”  — a gift  from  the 
author,  Adolphus  Pdrids,  of  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 

Several  volumes  have  been  given  by  Undergraduates. 

Among  the  contributions  of  College  officers  are  more 
than  40  volumes  from  Professor  Child;  numerous  pam- 
phlets and  about  TO  volumes  from  Professor  Wolcott  Gibbs ; 
and  from  Professor  Lowell  several  volumes,  together  with 
a collection  of  about  30  scarce  pamphlets,  most  of  which 
were  wanted  towards  completing  the  extensive  collection 
which  the  Library  previously  contained  respecting  White- 
field  and  his  labors  and  controversies  in  America. 

More  than  20  volumes  have  been  received  from  the  Hon. 
Henry  Wilson,  United  States  Senator;  28  from  Edward 
L.  Adams,  of  the  Adams  Express  Company,  Boston ; 37 
volumes  and  178  pamphlets  from  William  Francis  Allen,  of 
West  Newton  (II.  U.  1851)  ; a rich  collection  of  53  well- 
bound  volumes,  chiefly  Swedenborg’s  writings  or  relating 
to  Swedenborgianism,  from  William  James,  of  Boston  ; 63 
volumes,  besides  120  pamphlets,  from  Dr.  Benjamin  Joy 
Jeffries,  of  Boston  (H.  U.  1854)  ; 97  volumes  from  John 


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Joseph  May,  of  Dorchester ; more  than  100  volumes  from 
Henry  Gardner  Denny,  of  Dorchester  (H.  U.  1852)  ; more 
than  100  volumes  and  400  pamphlets,  IT  maps  and  3 en- 
gravings, besides  newspapers,  from  Charles  Eliot  Norton, 
of  Cambridge  (H.  U.  1846)  ; and  118  volumes  from  Richard 
Green  Parker,  of  Cambridge  (H.  U.  1817). 

Charles  W.  Moore,  of  Boston,  has  given  12  volumes,  to 
complete  the  set  of  the  Freemason’s  Monthly  Magazine. 

C.  F.  Duren,  of  Bangor,  Maine,  has  sent  68  pamphlets 
towards  completing  the  series  of  the  Sermons  before  the 
Maine  Missionary  Society  and  of  the  Society’s  Reports. 

Professor  Samuel  Roosevelt  Johnson,  D.  D.,  of  the  Gen- 
eral Theological  Seminary  of  New  York,  has  contributed 
several  volumes  and  about  1200  pamphlets  to  the  collection 
relating  to  the  Episcopal  Church  and  its  Institutions  in 
America  which  was  previously  in  the  Library,  and  to 
which  the  Rev.  William  Stevens  Perry  (H.  U.  1854)  has 
for  several  years  been  making  extensive  additions. 

Captain  Charles  O.  Boutelle,  of  the  United  States  Coast 
Survey,  has  given  47  volumes,  of  which'  8 are  manuscript, 
containing  letters  to  his  uncle,  the  Rev.  Ezra  Shaw  Good- 
win, of  Sandwich,  (H.  U.  1807,)  and  the  results  of  Mr. 
Goodwin’s  valuable  critical  investigations  of  classical,  the- 
ological, and  other  subjects. 

Miss  Mary  Willard,  of  Hingham,has  given  a manuscript 
volume  by  her  father,  Samuel  Willard,  D.  D.  (H.  U.  1803), 
entitled  “ The  Family  Psalter,  and  Songs  for  the  Sanctu- 
ary ; with  an  Introductory  Treatise  on  the  Elements  of  Vo- 
cal Expression,  both  Musical  and  Oratorical.”  The  Intro- 
duction, in  which  the  author  explains  his  plan  of  the  adap- 
tation of  the  poetical  ancl  musical  emphasis  to  each  other, 
was  written,  as  well  as  many  of  the  hymns,  after  he  reached 
the  age  of  eighty  or  eighty-one  years. 

From  Mrs.  Matilda  (Webber)  Dana,  of  Cambridge,  has 
been  received  a manuscript  copy  of  four  lectures  on  Elec- 
tro-Magnetism, delivered  in  January  and  February,  1827, 


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before  the  New  York  Atlienseum,  by  her  late  husband, 
James  Freeman  Dana,  a Harvard  graduate  of  1813,  who 
was  then  Professor  in  the  University  of  New  York.  He 
died  in  April,  1827,  two  months  after  these  lectures  were 
delivered,  leaving  in  them  the  results  of  investigations 
which  show  his  efforts  to  have  been  among  the  earliest 
in  this  country  to  excite  an  interest  in  the  subject  of  Elec- 
tro-Magnetism. 

From  the  house  of  Ticknor  and  Fields  of  Boston  have  been 
received  33  volumes.  In  the  same  spirit  with  which  their 
publications  have  been  given  for  many  years,  they  have 
been  continued  since  the  death  of  the  generous  and  la- 
mented head  of  the  firm,  William  D.  Ticknor,  whose  en- 
thusiasm for  the  Library  and  the  College  was  as  ardent  as 
if  he  had  been  one  of  its  most  affectionate  graduates. 

The  house  of  Gould  and  Lincoln  of  Boston  has  given 
such  of  their  recent  publications  as  had  not  been  previously 
procured. 

The  Hon.  Charles  Sumner  (H.  U.  1830)  has  given  about 
400  volumes  and  2800  pamphlets,  besides  5 maps,  18  en- 
gravings, 21  manuscripts,  and  a large  number  of  newspa- 
pers. A portion  of  this  collection  relates  to  the  subjects 
in  which  his  brother,  the  late  George  Sumner,  was  espe- 
cially interested,  and  many  of  the  works  appear,  by  the 
autographs  on  them,  to  have  been  presented  to  him  by 
the  authors. 

The  name  of  the  late  learned  Professor  Convers  Francis, 
D.  D.  no  longer  stands  among  our  living  benefactors ; but 
his  wishes,  sacredly  carried  out  by  his  son  and  daughter, 
though  not  expressed  in  a formal  will,  have,  in  addition  to 
a magnificent  gift  to  the  Divinity  School,  secured  to  the 
College  Library  from  his  unique  collection  about  600  rare 
volumes,  and  100  pamphlets,  none  of  which  are  counted 
as  duplicates. 

There  are  several  persons  — Dr.  Winslow  Lewis  (H.  U. 
1819),  Rear-Admiral  Davis  (H.  U.  1825),  Dr.  Samuel  Ab- 


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bott  Green  (H.  U.  1851),  Henry  Gardner  Denny  (H.  U. 

1852),  and  others  — who  deserve  special  mention,  not  only 
for  their  donations  year  after  year,  but  for  their  exertions- 
in  behalf  of  the  Library.  Nathaniel  Colver  Leeds,  of  the 
Junior  Class  of  Undergraduates,  has  rendered  valuable  as- 
sistance ; and  Christopher  Channing  Whitcomb,  of  Cam- 
bridge, has  spent  much  time  and  labor,  and  been  very  suc- 
cessful in  procuring  rare  works  and  in  completing  serials 
and  several  sets  of  periodicals.  The  Hon.  James  Black,  of 
Lancaster,  Pennsylvania,  who  has  undoubtedly  the  largest 
collection  of  books  and  pamphlets  in  the  world  on  the  sub- 
ject of  Temperance,  has  given  several  volumes,  and  pro- 
cured several  books  in  the  German  language  as  gifts  from 
the  German  authors  and  publishers  in  his  vicinity. 

In  looking  over  the  list  of  donations  in  this  country  it  is 
interesting  to  observe  the  great  number  of  sources  from 
which  they  have  come,  and  that  they  are  from  places  scat- 
tered over  not  less  than  twenty  of  the  States. 

When  we  pass  beyond  the  United  States  the  gratifica- 
tion is  not  diminished.  The  gifts  have  been  poured  in  s 

from  different  parts  of  the  British  Provinces  in  America, 
from  Brazil  in  South  America,  from  several  places  in  Great 
Britain,  and,  on  the  Continent,  from  Paris,  Florence,  Vi- 
enna, Leipzig,  Rostock,  Gottingen,  the  Grand  Duchy  of 
Oldenburg,  the  Kingdom  of  Bavaria,  Amsterdam,  Copen- 
hagen, Christiania  in  Norway,  Petersburg  in  Russia,  and 
even  from  Kolapoor  in  India,  and  other  places.  Nearly  all 
the  works  which  individuals  and  the  learned  institutions 
and  societies  in  foreign  countries  were  sending,  and  which 
were  specified  in  the  last  Report,  have  been  continued,  and 
several  others  have  been  added,  which  are  noticed  in  the 
list  appended  to  this  Report. 

We  have  been  gratified  in  receiving  from  His  Excellency 
Senhor  M.  M.  Lisboa,  Brazilian  Minister  at  Washington, 

D.  C.,  several  important  publications,  which  we  could  not 
otherwise  have  procured,  respecting  the  country  which  he 
represents. 


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From  James  Orchard  Halliwell,  LL.  D.,  to  whom  the  Li- 
brary was  previously  indebted  for  several  gifts,  have  been 
received  a number  of  rare  books  and  tracts,  with  eight 
specimens  of  leases,  deeds,  &c.,  from  the  time  of  Edward 
the  Third,  to  1635,  written  on  parchment. 

Twenty-six  volumes  have  been  sent  to  us  from  the  Li- 
brary of  the  University  at  Gottingen,  Prof.  Karl  Hoeck, 
Librarian. 

Henry  Tuke  Parker  (H.  U.  1842),  the  Library’s  agent  in 
London,  has  sent  several  choice  gifts.  One  of  them  is  a 
very  nicely  written  manuscript  of  the  fourteenth  century, 
seventy-seven  leaves  on  vellum,  — the  first  three  leaves 
wanting.  It  is  a didactic  poem  called  “ Stimulus  Consci- 
entiae,”  or  “ The  Prick  of  Conscience,”  and  generally  as- 
cribed to  Richard  Rolle,  commonly  called  Richard  de  Ham- 
pole,  an  Eremite  of  the  Order  of  St.  Augustine,  who  lived 
a solitary  life  near  the  Priory  of  Hampole,  four  miles  from 
Doncaster.  This  volume  belonged  to  Francis  Blomefield, 
the  Norfolk  Historian,  and  contains  his  bookplate.  A full 
account  of  this  curious  work,  by  Joseph  Brooks  Yates,  is 
contained  in  the  Archaeologia  of  the  Society  of  Antiqua- 
ries of  London,  XIX.  314,  with  which  may  be  compared 
what  is  contained  in  Warton’s  History  of  English  Poetry, 
II.  35,  ed.  1840.  “ It  is  a work  of  great  labor  and  learn- 

ing ; presenting  a view  of  the  morality  and  the  dogmas  of 
the  clerical  orders  of  that  day,  who  were  then  almost 
the  only  depositaries  of  information  and  arbiters  of  con- 
science.” 

One  of  the  most  important  additions  during  the  year  is 
a copy  of  Tischendorf’s  magnificent  edition  of  the  Codex 
Sinaiticus,  in  four  folio  volumes,  the  gift  of  his  Majesty 
Alexander  the  Second,  Emperor  of  Russia,  through  his 
Excellency  Baron  Yon  Stoeckl,  Russian  Minister  at  Wash- 
ington. This  precious  manuscript,  supposed  to  be  more 
than  fifteen  hundred  years  old,  contains,  in  addition  to  a 
large  part  of  the  Old  Testament  in  Greek,  the  New  Testa- 
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ment  entire,  together  with  the  Epistle  of  Barnabas,  and  a 
part  of  the  “ Shepherd”  of  Hcrmas.  It  is  printed  in  fac- 
simile type,  cast  for  the  express  purpose,  like  Baber’s 
splendid  edition  of  the  Codex  Alexandrinus,  which,  how- 
ever, it  surpasses  in  typographical  beauty.  It  lias  nine- 
teen finely  executed  fac-simile  plates,  representing  portions 
of  the  manuscript  of  special  interest,  and  two  additional 
plates  giving  fac-simile  specimens  of  thirty-six  of  the  old- 
est existing  Greek  manuscripts,  illustrating  the  changes  in 
the  style  of  writing  at  different  periods. 

To  these  scattered  gifts  from  hundreds  of  donors  are  to 
be  added  what  have  been  purchased  with  the  incomes  from 
the  gifts  of  Hollis,  Shapleigh,  Haven,  Ward,  Salisbury, 
Gray,  and  Bowditcli. 

The  whole  number  of  accessions  during  the  year,  exclu- 
sive of  unbound  newspapers,  duplicates,  unimportant  sale 
catalogues,  &c.,  is  about  4,153  volumes,  7,217  pamphlets, 
and  36  maps,  including  Beymann’s  great  Topographical 
Map  of  Germany,  Switzerland,  Belgium,  the  Netherlands, 
and  Poland,  in  301  sheets,  and  the  Map  of  Germany  and 
the  neighboring  countries,  published  by  the  Weimar  Geo- 
graphical Institute,  in  255  sheets. 

Twenty-six  of  the  maps  were  gifts.  Of  the  4,153  vol- 
umes, 2,522,  or  nearly  five  eighths,  were  given ; and  all  of 
the  7,217  pamphlets,  except  about  185.  And  it  is  deserv- 
ing of  notice  that  — though,  through  the  great  efforts  for 
more  than  twenty  years  to  accumulate  pamphlets,  by  which 
the  number  in  the  Library,  besides  what  are  in  bound  vol- 
umes, was  probably  at  least  70,000  a year  ago  — these  addi- 
tional 7,217  were  what  remained  after  rejecting  thousands 
of  duplicates. 

Considering  the  state  of  the  country,  the  high  prices  of 
books,  the  high  rates  of  foreign  exchange,  and  the  derange- 
ment of  the  currency,  this  is  a gratifying  view  of  the  pros- 
perity of  the  Library  for  the  year  1863  - 64,  particularly 
when  the  prospect  is  that  for  the  coming  year  the  incomes 


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from  all  the  permanent  funds  will  not  be  as  much  as  will 
be  required  to  meet  the  expenses  of  the  serials  and  periodi- 
cals which  are  now  taken,  and  which  seem  indispensable  to 
keep  the  College  officers  and  others  who  frequent  the  Libra- 
ry well  informed  of  what  is  passing  in  the  world  of  letters. 

In  the  course  of  the  year  78  volumes  have  been  repaired 
and  878  bound. 

Fifteen  volumes  have  disappeared  and  been  stolen  ; and  of 
those  which  were  missing  at  the  last  examination  or  before, 
six  have  been  recovered.  One  volume,  which  was  borrowed 
16  March,  1855,  by  a Professor,  to  accommodate  an  acquaint- 
ance named  Niles,  who  went  off  without  returning  it,  and 
for  which  th6  borrower  had  to  substitute  another,  was  re- 
cently found  by  Dr.  Shurtleff  among  some  old  books  and 
papers  in  an  apothecary’s  shop  in  Boston.  Four  volumes 
which  were  missing  at  the  examination  in  1855,  the  last 
examination  before  the  decease  of  my  predecessor,  Dr. 
Harris,  were  returned  anonymously  through  the  Express 
on  the  second  day  of  last  February. 

All  the  books  and  pamphlets  received  during  the  year 
have  been  catalogued  with  full  titles  on  the  long  cards,  and 
also,  with  the  exception  of  some  unimportant  pamphlets 
and  continuations,  on  the  smaller  cards  used  for  the  new 
catalogues  of  authors  and  subjects,  of  which  a full  descrip- 
tion was  given  last  year.  These  new  catalogues  have  al- 
ready added  greatly  to  the  utility  of  the  Library,  and  have 
been  constantly  resorted  to  by  the  College  students  and 
others  engaged  in  literary  research.  The  whole  num- 
ber of  volumes  entered  in  them  up  to  the  first  of  July  was 
about  82,000 ; of  pamphlets,  8,500 ; the  number  of  cards 
written,  over  81,000. 

The  bound  volumes  received  during  the  last  year  have 
all  been  placed  on  the  shelves  of  the  Library ; but  great 
difficulty  and  embarrassment  have  been  experienced  in 
the  attempt  to  preserve  the  classification  of  the  books,  on 
account  of  the  want  of  room  in  many  alcoves  for  the  new 


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accessions.  Extensive  changes  in  the  arrangement,  attend- 
ed with  a serious  expenditure  of  time  and  labor,  have  thus 
been  made  necessary.  For  example,  the  whole  body  of 
Shakespearian  literature  has  been  driven  from  the  alcove 
to  which  it  belongs,  and  compelled  to  take  refuge  in  the 
alcoves  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  Library,  appropriated  to 
the  Greek  and  Latin  Classics,  which  have  very  little  room 
to  spare.  The  portion  of  the  8th  Alcove  devoted  to  English 
poetry  is  full,  and  where  additions  to  that  department  shall 
be  placed  hereafter  is  a problem  not  easy  of  solution.  The 
32d  Alcove,  devoted  to  mathematics,  has  only  been  relieved 
by  taking  a large  number  of  elementary  works  on  Arith- 
metic, Algebra,  and  Geometry  from  the  shelves,  tying  them 
up  in  parcels  of  convenient  size,  and  packing  them  away 
behind  a collection  of  similar  works  occupying  certain 
shelves  in  Alcove  12.  The  same  process  has  been  neces- 
sarily resorted  to  in  Alcove  30,  from  which  all  the  English 
Grammars,  Readers,  and  Spelling-Books  have  been  with- 
drawn, and  disposed  of  in  a similar  manner.  These  des- 
perate expedients  only  foreshadow  the  troubles  to  come, 
unless  active  measures  are  promptly  taken  to  provide  better 
accommodations  for  the  Library  than  Gore  Hall  is  now  able 
to  afford. 

Besides  the  changes  alluded  to,  Alcoves  4,  4^,  and  30 
have  been  re-arranged  during  the  year,  new  shelf  cata- 
logues made  for  them,  and  most  of  the  new  places  of  the 
books  marked  on  the  cards. 

Thus  concludes  the  last  year  of  the  century  since  the 
disastrous  destruction  by  fire,  on  the  night  of  the  24th 
of  January,  1764,  of  all  except  two  or  three  hundred 
of  the  volumes  of  which  the  Library  then  consisted. 
The  total  number  of  books  now  in  Gore  Hall  is  about 
108,000,  and  in  all  the  libraries  connected  with  the  dif- 
ferent departments  of  the  University  about  163,500.  In 
addition  to  these  there  are  probably  between  75,000  and 
80,000  pamphlets,  and  one  of  the  most  valuable  collections 
of  early  maps  in  existence. 


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The  beginning  of  the  accumulation  of  these  literary  treas- 
ures was  made  immediately  after  the  old  Library  was  burnt. 
As  the  old  Harvard  Hall  was  destroyed  while  it  was  occu- 
pied by  the  Legislature,  the  neat  Harvard  Hall  now  stand- 
ing was  built  by  the  Province  of  Massachusetts  Bay.  To 
make  a Library  for  it,  New  Hampshire  gave  £ 300  and  Han- 
cock more  than  £ 550.  Governor  Bernard  gave  liberally, 
and  was  active  in  procuring  donations.  Clergymen  and 
scholars  with  limited  means  felt  that  the  loss  to  Christian- 
ity and  learning  demanded  personal  sacrifices,  and  sent 
from  their  small  private  collections  volumes  which  from 
the  autographs  and  notes  in  them  appear  to  have  been  cher- 
ished gifts  from  ancestors  and  friends.  Others  who  had 
ampler  means  gave  more  liberally.  Several  hundred  pounds 
were  raised  in  England.  A number  of  donations  were 
made  by  English  authors  and  publishers.  Hollis,  whose 
name  should  not  be  mentioned  but  with  gratitude  and 
affection,  sent  boxes  after  boxes  of  the  best  books  which  he 
could  select,  bound  in  the  most  sumptuous  and  substantial 
manner.  Most  of  them  were  treasures,  now  so  scarce  and 
intrinsically  valuable  that  they  are  eagerly  sought  Tor  as 
rarities.  He  grasped  all  subjects,  always  having  reference 
to  solid  scholarship.  In  one  of  his  volumes  he  wrote  that 
he  had  been  u particularly  industrious  in  collecting  Gram- 
mars and  Lexicons  of  the  Oriental  Root  languages  to  send  to 
Harvard  College,  in  hope  of  forming  by  that  means,  assist- 
ed by  the  Energy  of  the  Leaders,  always  beneficent,  a few 
PRIME  scholars,  Honors  to  their  Country  and  Lights  to 
Mankind.”  In  another  book  he  wrote,  “ Hearne’s  publica- 
tions, especially  the  large  paper,  are  very  difficultly  met 
with  ; but  they  shall  be  ALL  sent,  notwithstanding,  to  Har- 
vard College.”  Of  Prynne’s  Works,  on  a blank  leaf,  dated 
“ Palmal,  Oct.  1,  1769,”  he  writes:  “It  has  been  thought 
proper  to  bind  this  copy  of  a very  curious  and  scarce  work, 
in  six  volumes,  for  the  conveniency  of  the  ingenuous  Stu- 
dents of  Harvard  College,  at  Cambridge,  in  New  England, 


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who  shall  consult  it.  The  copy  was  complete,  in  three 
tomes,  when  purchased  a few  years  ago  ; but  was  mutilated 
afterward,  shamefully,  in  a manner  not  so  proper  to  relate, 
and  the  scarcer  part  of  the  scarcer  tome,  from  page  848  to 
page  993,  stolen ! It  is  supposed  that  there  are  not  six  com- 
plete copies  of  this  valuable  work,  at  this  time,  in  Britain.” 
At  the  Stowe  sale,  a set  was  sold  for  nearly.  £ 200. 

Thus  it  was  with  various  other  important  works,  from 
which  I might  make  similar  extracts  of  notes  in  his  hand- 
writing. He  also  left  to  the  Library  a fund  of  £ 500  at 
his  decease,  1 January,  1774. 

By  such  means  was  gathered  a library  which,  while  it 
contained  some  books  of  comparatively  little  value,  was 
made  up  mostly  of  such  works  as  would,  because  of  their 
worth,  be  considered  indispensable  in  a good  library  at  the 
present  day.  It  was  an  excellent  collection. 

The  war  of  the  Revolution  followed.  The  College  build- 
ings were  occupied  by  troops.  The  College  officers  and 
students  removed  to  Concord.  For  security  the  Library 
was  distributed  among  clergymen  and  others  in  the  coun- 
try towns,  where  it  would  be  but  little  exposed  to  the  evils 
of  war.  When  the  war  was  ended,  and  the  scattered  vol- 
umes were  welcomed  back  to  their  old  places  on  the 
shelves,  the  country  was  exhausted.  To  pay  the  taxes  and 
procure  subsistence  was  as  much  as  the  people  could  do. 
The  Library,  in  common  with  the  College,  suffered.  But 
as  prosperity  returned,  the  attention  of  graduates,  and  the 
public  spirit  which  began  to  be  developed  in  the  commu- 
nity, were  turned  towards  the  institution,  which,  founded 
by  the  fathers,  was  the  pride  of  the  children. 

At  this  juncture  the  accession  of  Dr.  Kirkland  to  the 
Presidency,  in  November,  1810,  gave  an  impetus  to  the 
Library,  in  common  with  all  the  other  departments  of  the 
University.  He  availed  himself  of  this  state  of  feeling  to 
advance  the  interests  of  the  Institution.  During  his  ad- 
ministration of  about  eighteen  years,  the  Law  and  Divinity 


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Schools  were  established ; the  Rumford,  Smith,  Eliot,  and 
McLean  Professorships  were  founded,  great  changes  were 
made  in  the  course  of  instruction,  and  an  interest  in  the 
College  awakened,  which  led  to  important  bequests.  In 
his  survey  of  the  various  objects  which  demanded  atten- 
tion, the  Library  was  not  overlooked.  He  exerted  himself 
for  this  as  he  did  for  the  other  departments,  and  during 
his  administration  the  accessions  probably  amounted  to 
about  10,000  volumes.  This  was  a great  advance  on  the 
preceding  twenty  or  thirty  years ; but  it  was  not  wholly, 
or  to  any  considerable  extent,  because  upon  his  inaugura- 
tion the  “ barriers  fell  at  once,”  as  the  Report  of  the  last 
Examining  Committee  states,  or  “ because  the  opening  of 
the  Library  freely  to  the  public  ....  raised  up  benefac- 
tors beyond  the  fondest  hopes  of  those  who  adopted  the 
measure  half  a century  ago.” 

The  Hollis  and  Shapleigli  Funds  had  been  given  pre- 
viously ; and  the  donors,  if  one  is  to  judge  by  the  ex- 
clusiveness which  prevailed  when  their  bequests  were  made 
and  the  fact  that  Shapleigli  himself  was  a Librarian,  could 
not  have  been  actuated  by  the  liberality  of  the  policy  of 
Dr.  Kirkland’s  administration,  which  was  adopted  many 
years  afterward.  Here  was  an  income  of  some  $300  a 
year  for  seventeen  or  eighteen  years,  which,  if  judiciously 
laid  out,  probably  paid  for  2,000  or  2,500  of  the  10,000 
volumes. 

Next  is  the  bequest  of  1,200  volumes  by  Thomas  Palmer, 
of  London,  whose  College  course  was  passed  during  the 
rigid  Library  restrictions  which  were  in  force  when  he 
graduated,  in  1761,  not  long  after  which  he  went  to  Eu- 
rope, where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  made 
magnificent  gifts  to  the  Library  as  early  as  1771,  and  fore- 
shadowed his  purpose  when  Dr.  Kirkland,  a year  or  two  old, 
was  living  among  the  little  Indian  boys  at  Fort  Herkimer. 

Next  we  have  the  Ebeling  Library,  of  some  3,500  vol- 
umes, given  by  the  late  Israel  Thorndike,  which  never 


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would  have  come  to  us  but  for  Dr.  Cogswell.  How  far 
Dr.  Cogswell  was  influenced  by  the  policy  of  free  access  to 
the  Library,  may  be  inferred  from  the  fact  that  his  admin- 
istration as  Librarian  here  was  marked  by  a strict  exclu- 
sion of  all  persons  except  during  the  regular  library  hours, 
and  that  he  procured  an  order  not  only  prohibiting  all  per- 
sons from  taking  out  books  during  one  winter,  but  even 
excluding  College  officers  as  well  as  others  from  access  to 
the  Library.  He  knew  that  the  interests  of  the  Library 
would  be  best  promoted  by  getting  its  contents  ready  for 
use  before  they  were  allowed  to  go  out,  and  that  this  could 
not  be  done  if  the  Library  was  constantly  accessible.  And 
if  anything  more  is  wanted  on  this  head,  it  may  be  added, 
that  to  him  is  the  world  indebted  for  the  Astor  Library, 
and  that,  by  the  laws  which  were  made  principally  through 
his  influence,  the  building  is  effectually  closed  during  the 
month  of  August ; and  at  other  times,  though  closed  half 
an  hour  before  sunset,  it  is  not  open  before  ten  o’clock  ; 
and,  moreover,  no  books  are  allowed  to  be  taken  away  from 
the  Library. 

To  these  may  be  added  the  Warden  Collection  of  about 
1,200  volumes,  which  were  given  by  Mr.  Eliot  at  the  very 
close  of  Dr.  Cogswell’s  administration,  when  the  restrictive 
rules  which  the  good  of  the  Library  required  were  in  full 
force  and  well  known. 

Several  hundred  duplicate  volumes  were  sold  at  auction 
and  at  private  sales  during  Dr.  Kirkland’s  administration, 
in  order  to  procure  others,  which  are  also  to  be  taken  into 
consideration. 

Thus,  from  the  incomes  of  the  Hollis  and  Shapleigli 
Funds,  the  Palmer,  Thorndike,  and  Eliot  gifts,  and  the 
sales  of  duplicates,  it  is  reasonable  to  suppose  that  there 
was  an  accession  of  about  9,000  volumes  which  had  noth- 
ing to  do  with  the  free  policy,  if  it  may  be  so  called,  which, 
it  is  said,  was  inaugurated  in  Dr.  Kirkland’s  administration. 

But  suppose  this  number  over-estimated,  and  that  the 


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additions  from  all  these  sources  amounted  to  about  8,500. 
There  will  then  remain  1,500  of  the  10,000  volumes  unac- 
counted for.  From  these  deduct  141  elegantly  bound  vol- 
umes of  French  works  given  by  the  Hon.  David  Sears, 
who  graduated  some  years  before  Dr.  Kirkland  was  inau- 
gurated ; also  what  were  given  by  College  officers  and  by 
Mr.  Everett  and  Mr.  Folsom,  and  particularly  what  these 
two  gentlemen  procured  in  Europe  from  authors  and  pub- 
lishers, who  probably  did  not  even  inquire  how  many 
hours  in  a day  the  Library  was  open,  or  rather  judged  of 
it  by  the  restrictions  of  European  libraries,  and  add  to 
these  what  were  purchased  by  Professor  Ticknor’s  appro- 
priation of  one  year’s  salary  for  this  purpose ; and,  so  far 
as  it  regards  number,  there  can  remain  but  very  few  of  the 
10,000  volumes,  probably  not  more  than  twenty  or  thirty 
annually,  which  were  derived  from  all  other  sources.  So 
that  it  is  a mistake  to  suppose  that  “ whole  libraries  were 
poured  into  Harvard  Hall  by  the  munificence  of  several 
benefactors,”  because  of  “ the  opening  of  the  Library 
freely  to  the  public.” 

And  “ the  practice,  with  grateful  authors  and  publishers, 
of  enriching  the  Library  with  copies  of  their  new  works, 
which  had  been  made  better  by  the  use  of  its  stores,”  did 
not  amount  to  much.  A few  volumes  were  given  by  their 
authors.  The  largest  publishing  house  in  Boston  gave 
several  volumes ; but  not  so  many  as  are  now  sometimes 
given  by  a student  while  in  college.  And,  with  the  excep- 
tions which  I have  made,  I do  not  think  that  all  the  pub- 
lishers, during  the  eighteen  years,  gave  so  many  books  as 
have  recently  and  repeatedly  been  given  in  one  year  by 
Ticknor  and  Fields. 

If,  too,  so  much  was  effected  as  seems  to  be  implied  in 
the  Report  of  the  Committee  of  the  last  year,  it  would 
naturally  be  expected  that  the  accessions  would,  on  the 
whole,  have  been  constantly  increasing,  and  that  in  the 
course  of  fifteen  years  the  tide  would  have  become  strong, 
3 


18 


and  be  bearing  into  Harvard  Hall  argosies  of  literary 
treasures.  But  so  far  was  tbis  from  being  the  fact,  I am 
confident  that,  while  I was  Assistant  Librarian,  so  near  the 
end  of  Dr.  Kirkland’s  administration  as  1825  - 26,  there 
were  not  more  than  twenty-five  or  thirty  volumes  added 
from  all  sources  during  the  year,  and,  if  I recollect  right, 
nearly  half  of  these  were  given  by  myself. 

It  is  not,  however,  a liberal  library  policy  which  I would 
be  understood  to  oppose,  but  a policy  which  I conceive 
would  on  the  whole  be  injurious.  The  Library  should 
never  be  opened  when  it  is  inconsistent  with  its  highest 
interests.  And  this,  to  which  there  is  no  allusion  in  the 
Report,  was  as  striking  a part  of  Dr.  Kirkland’s  policy  as 
the  extension  of  library  privileges.  His  “ marvellous  per- 
sonal influence  ” procured  the  order  which  closed  the 
Library  entirely  during  one  winter.  When  there  was  a 
change  of  librarians  in  the  latter  part  of  his  administra- 
tion, he  used  his  influence  and  procured  the  vote  that 
Seniors  and  Juniors  on  Mondays  and  Thursdays,  Sopho- 
mores on  Tuesdays,  and  Freshmen  on  Wednesdays  in  the 
afternoon,  and  then  only,  if  they  wanted  to  take  out  books, 
should  go  to  the  Library,  and  on  slips  write  the  titles,  and 
go  again  immediately  after  Commons  the  next  morning 
and  get  them.  And  all  other  persons,  except  members  of 
the  Faculty,  were  also  required  to  go  through  a similar 
routine  of  two  days  to  get  a book,  and  perhaps  to  go  with- 
out any,  if  at  the  second  coming  it  was  found  that  the  book 
did  not  belong  to  the  Library  or  was  out.  This  was  a very 
unpopular  and  vexatious  measure ; but  it  was  the  best  thing 
which,  under  the  circumstances,  could  be  done  for  the  in- 
terests both  of  the  Library  and  of  those  who  used  it.  So 
that  the  throwing  open  of  the  doors  of  the  Library  was 
checked  always  by  what  was  necessary  to  make  it  most 
available  and  useful. 

But  according  to  the  Report,  “ Not  only  has  the  time  in 
which  ” the  Library  “ is  accessible  been  abridged  by  one 


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day  and  a half  in  the  week  (at  present  by  one  whole  day) 
during  term-time,  but  the  exigencies  of  the  literary  public, 
which  very  exigencies  the  University  Library  itself  has  done 
so  much  to  create , make  the  closing  of  it  during  the  Aca- 
demic vacation,  that  is,  for  one  entire  quarter  of  the  year 
(with  the  exception  of  one  morning  a week),  to  be  felt  as  a 
public  calamity  in  the  world  of  letters.  4 Disastrous  twi- 
light/ 4 dim  eclipse/  4 co\d  obstruction/  are  borrowed  terms 
familiarly  applied  to  it.” 

Let  us  see  if  this  is  a fair  and  reasonable  statement. 

As  to  the  abridgment  of  the  time  during  which  the 
Library  is  accessible,  I state  from  personal  knowledge  that 
from  the  year  1821  till  after  I became  Librarian,  the  Li- 
brary was  closed  in  term-time  on  Fridays  in  the  afternoon 
and  on  Saturdays ; and  I am  assured  that  this  was  the  case 
previously.  I find  no  official  authority  to  sustain  the  state- 
ment that  the  time  for  access  to  it  is  now  abridged  by  one 
day  in  the  week  ; and,  having  examined  the  College  laws, 
I assert  that  the  Library  never  before  the  present  adminis- 
tration has  been  open  so  many  hours  in  a week  as  it  is  now. 
So  far  as  this  abridgment  is  urged  for  extending  the  time, 
it  is  not  founded  on  fact.* 

In  term-time,  except  during  the  College  dinner  hours 
and  on  Saturdays,  Core  Hall  is  now  open  from  nine  to  five 
o’clock,  or  till  sunset  when  that  is  before  five  ; and  on  Sat- 
urday afternoons  it  is  abandoned  to  the  sweepers.  This 
leaves  only  Saturday  forenoons  when  it  is  closed. 

During  the  hours  of  access  every  reasonable  facility  for 
literary  research  is  extended  to  visitors.  Every  kind  of 

* After  this  Report  was  read,  a scrutinizing  examination  led  to  the  discovery 
that  on  the  manuscript  records  there  stood,  for  a few  weeks,  when  some  changes 
were  going  on,  more  than  fifty  years  ago,  a vote  by  which  the  Library  might 
have  been  opened  one  hour  more  in  a week.  Considering  how  little  the  Library 
was  then  used,  and  that,  years  afterward,  it  was  the  study-room  of  the  officers 
in  attendance,  and  that  Professor  Norton  used  it  for  a recitation-room,  the  cir- 
cumstance is  hardly  worth  mentioning  except  for  the  purpose  of  being  strictly 
accurate. 


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library  business  is  made  to  yield  to  their  accommodation. 
There  is  no  person  connected  with  the  Library  or  employed 
there  who  does  not  leave  his  work  for  that  purpose.  These 
applications  for  information,  which  are  invited,  encouraged, 
and  urged,  as  pertaining  to  the  purposes  for  which  books 
are  made  and  libraries  founded,  consume  a great  deal  of 
time.  Not  unfrequently,  after  giving  to  them  and  other 
incidental  matters  the  attention  which  they  require,  I have 
not  more  than  one  or  two  hours  in  a day  left  for  solid  work. 
Last  Term  I employed  all  the  time  I could  command  for 
about  five  weeks  on  important  business,  which  could  have 
been  accomplished  in  five  days  with  closed  doors.  The 
consequence  is  a constant  tendency  to  fall  in  arrears,  and 
to  an  accumulation  of  business,  which  hangs  like  a dead 
weight  on  the  efforts  to  bring  up  the  Library  and  keep  it 
in  easy  running  order.  To  provide  in  some  degree  for  this, 
and  to  have  one  uninterrupted  half-day  in  each  week  to  do 
many  things,  which,  in  a building  so  like  a whispering-gal- 
lery as  Gore  Hall  is,  cannot  be  done  except  when  visitors 
are  excluded,  I have  strenuously  insisted  on  closing  the 
doors  effectually  about  four  hours  on  each  Saturday  fore- 
noon ; that  being  a time,  and  the  only  time  in  the  week, 
when  the  laws  do  not  require  them  to  be  kept  open. 

And  in  this  connection  I must  speak  of  the  accommoda- 
tions, which,  at  exceeding  inconvenience , are  granted  by 
the  College  Library,  and  not  commonly  granted  elsewhere, 
at  the  time  of  the  annual  examinations.  On  these  occa- 
sions other  libraries  are  generally  closed  from  the  time  the 
books  are  called  in  till  the  work  is  completed.  Here  the 
Library  is  accessible  as  usual.  And  the  College  Professors 
and  other  Instructors  have  the  privilege  of  keeping  out 
books  more  than  a fortnight  longer  than  others.  As  the 
parts  for  Commencement  are  not  assigned  till  after  the 
books  are  called  in,  the  Library  officers  must  give  much 
time  to  selecting  for  the  performers  the  best  books  and 
essays  which  can  be  found  on  their  several  subjects ; anti 


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the  privilege  of  taking  them  out  must  again  be  given  to 
them.  As  none  but  those  who  have  parts  can  do  this,  and 
it  is  still  term-time,  the  Library  is  constantly  resorted  to 
for  reading.  To  this  it  may  be  added,  that  before  Com- 
mencement there  are  many  visitors  who  take  the  occasion 
to  spend  a little  time  in  Gore  Hall.  So  many  interrup- 
tions of  course  interfere  seriously  with  the  work  of  com- 
paring every  title  of  more  than  100,000  volumes  with  the 
alcove  catalogues,  looking  after  delinquents,  making  out 
exact  lists  of  all  the  books  that  have  disappeared,  and  of  all 
that  have  been  restored,  examining  into  and  settling  doubt- 
ful cases,  counting  and  summing  up  results,  and  making 
out  the  Annual  Report ; all  of  which  must  be  carried  * 
through  in  about  three  weeks,  and  be  ready  for  the  Com- 
mittee on  the  day  of  the  examination.  No  one  who  has 
not  had  the  experience  can  form  an  idea  of  the  pressure 
upon  body  and  mind  which  under  these  circumstances  is 
required  to  do  this  work  thoroughly  within  the  time  which 
was  thought  to  be  all  that  could  be  allowed  thirty  or  forty 
years  ago,  when  there  were  not  one  fourth  as  many  vol- 
umes. as  now,  and  every  instructor  was  required  to  return 
his  books  as  soon  as  other  persons,  and  there  were  com- 
paratively few  students  and  visitors.  It  would  be  an  in- 
describable relief  if  the  work  could  be  done  with  closed 
doors ; but  though  other  libraries  close  theirs  at  such 
times,  Harvard,  under  all  the  inconveniences,  calls  on 
her  Library  officers  to  continue  her  accommodations. 

In  vacations,  Gore  Hall  is  open  every  Monday  from  nine 
to  one  o’clock.  Double  the  ordinary  number  of  volumes 
is  then  allowed  to  all  who  are  entitled  to  the  use  of  the 
Library ; and  College  officers  are  virtually  unrestricted. 
Latterly,  to  those  who  could  not,  even  with  these  facilities, 
pursue  their  investigations  without  Considerable  inconven- 
ience, an  extra  hour  or  more  has  been  given  in  the  after- 
noons of  Wednesdays  and  Fridays,  or  on  such  other  after- 
noon as  was  most  convenient  for  them.  And  when  all  this 


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was  not  enough,  and  a man’s  residence  in  Cambridge  was 
expressly  for  the  purpose  of  using  the  Library  in  preparing 
works  for  the  press,  a private  arrangement  has  been  made 
by  which  on  every  day  except  Saturdays  and  Sundays  a 
knock  at  a previously  appointed  hour  has  procured  admit- 
tance. If  the  hour  was  early,  he  has  been  able  to  pursue 
his  studies  all  day  during  five  days  of  the  week,  with  a 
great  deal  more  success  than  if  the  Library  had  been  open ; 
and  at  the  same  time  the  Library  business  has  been  going 
on  without  very  serious  interruptions. 

With  all  these  concessions  and  accommodations  in  term- 
time  and  during  the  preparation  for  the  annual  examina- 
tions, and  in  vacations,  I do  not  understand  how  the  clos- 
ing of  the  Library  as  much  as  it  is  can  be  44  felt  as  a public 
calamity  in  the  world  of  letters,”  or  how  the  borrowed 
terms  44  disastrous  twilight,”  44  dim  eclipse,”  44  cold  obstruc- 
tion,” can  reasonably  be  applied  to  it. 

The  peculiarly  bad  construction  of  Gore  Hall,  — in  which 
there  is  not  much  more  privacy  than  in  the  parlor,  reading- 
room,  or  bar-room  of  a hotel, — added  to  an  effort  promptly 
to  provide  for  and  even  anticipate  the  wants  of  all  as  soon  as 
they  are  seen  to  enter  it,  crowds  off  work  which  must  be 
done,  and  which  cannot  be  done  except  in  the  freedom  from 
intrusion  afforded  by  Saturday  forenoons  and  vacations. 
These  seasons  of  comparative  quiet  are  diligently  improved. 
The  policy  which  would  throw  open  the  doors  at  all  times 
to  all  persons  indiscriminately,  even  cutting  off  in  vaca- 
tions the  services  which  are  rendered  gratuitously  because 
the  labor  cannot  be  performed  in  term-time,  does  not  grasp 
in  all  its  bearings  the  highest  interests  of  the  Library  or 
of  literature. 

Moreover,  since  I had  the  honor  to  be  chosen  Librarian, 
eight  years  ago,  all  the  measures  have  been  adopted 
which  would  really  promote  the  highest  interests  of  the 
Library,  so  far  as  they  could  be  learned  by  an  experience 
and  careful  observation  which  have  been  constantly  devel- 


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oped  during  a period  now  covering  nearly  a quarter  of  a 
century.  Gore  Hall  is  now  open  all  day  on  Fridays,  in- 
stead of  being  opened  only  in  the  forenoon.  It  has  been 
made  accessible  seven  hours  a day  instead  of  six.  The  time 
for  borrowing  and  returning  books,  instead  of  being  limited, 
as  it  was  by  a strict  interpretation  of  the  law,  to  one  hour 
on  Tuesdays  for  Sophomores,  and  one  on  Wednesdays  for 
Freshmen,  and  to  one  on  Mondays  and  another  on  Thurs- 
days for  Seniors  and  Juniors,  being  but  two  hours  in  a week 
for  the  two  higher  classes  and  but  one  hour  for  each  of  the 
lower  classes,  has  been  extended,  so  that  all  persons  indis- 
criminately, who  are  entitled  to  its  privileges,  can  borrow 
and  return  books  whenever  the  Library  is  open.  A general 
invitation  through  the  thousands  who  visit  Gore  Hall,  and 
through  Circulars  and  the  Annual  Catalogues,  has  been  ex- 
tended through  the  country  to  all  classes  of  people,  whether 
connected  with  the  College  or  not,  to  come  and  avail  them- 
selves of  its  literary  treasures.  The  area  of  the  building,  so 
far  as  it  is  practicable,  has  been  filled  with  chairs  and  tables 
to  facilitate  their  labors.  The  number  of  periodicals  has 
been  increased  to  about  200,  which,  instead  of  being  kept  in 
a closet  and  handed  out  as  they  were  asked  for,  are  now 
placed  where  they  are  accessible,  without  the  asking,  to  all 
who  wish  to  keep  themselves  informed  of  whatever  is 
recent  in  the  world  of  letters.  A system  of  cataloguing 
has  been  devised  by  the  Assistant  Librarian,  and  vigorously 
carried  forward,  sometimes  by  night  as  well  as  by  day,  and 
in  vacations  as  well  as  amid  the  incessant  interruptions  of 
term-time,  which  reveals  the  treasures  of  the  Library,  and 
places  them  before  all  who  use  it,  in  a way  never  before 
known.  A spirit  of  research  has  been  awakened  which 
never  before  existed.  Within  a few  years  the  use  of  the 
Library  in  term-time  has  been  quadrupled.  It  now 
sends  out  a flood  of  light  and  learning,  which  would  have 
been  by  far  smaller  but  for  the  labor  expended,  while  the 
Library  was  closed,  in  bringing  its  treasures  into  a good 
condition  for  use. 


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And  if  we  are  to  judge  by  results  in  the  community,  the 
course  which  has  been  pursued  has  been  so  far  from  unsat- 
isfactory, that,  combining  with  other  favorable  causes,  it 
has  culminated  in  unprecedented  prosperity.  During  the 
present  administration,  more  money  has  been  given,  to  the 
Library  for  immediate  expenditure  for  books  than  during 
the  two  preceding  centuries.  Besides  this,  the  permanent 
funds,  entirely  inadequate  as  they  are  to  meet  the  wants 
of  an  intensely  active,  searching,  and  broad  scholarship, 
have  been  more  than  doubled.  The  average  of  acces- 
sions annually,  not  to  mention  thousands  of  pamphlets,  has 
risen  from  251  volumes,  which  were  all  that  were  added 
from  all  sources  in  1839-40,  the  year  before  I came  to 
Gore  Hall,  to  about  6,000  volumes.  Of  these,  the  scatter- 
ing donations  from  hundreds  of  givers,  instead  of  161  vol- 
umes annually,  now  average  more  than  2,000.  Consider- 
ably more  than  one  third  of  all  the  volumes  which  have  been 
accumulating  since  the  disastrous  destruction  by  fire,  one 
hundred  years  since,  have  been  added  during  the  last  eight 
years.  Gore  Hall,  which  many  thought  capacious  enough 
to  contain  all  the  additions  which  would  be  made  during  the 
present  century,  is  already  filled.  These  accumulations 
would  not  have  been  poured  in  so  bountifully  if  the  obstruc- 
tions to  the  use  of  the  Library  were  as  formidable  as  the 
Report  of  last  year’s  Committee  seems  to  imply. 

But  to  come  directly  to  the  point : — How  far  is  it  true 
that  such  expressions  as  “ disastrous  twilight,”  “ dim 
eclipse,”  “ cold  obstruction,”  have  been  “ familiarly  ap- 
plied ” to  exclusion  from  the  Library  ? It  is  singular  that 
not  one  of  them  should  have  come  to  the  knowledge  of  the 
Librarian  before  he  saw  them  in  the  Report.  The  Presi- 
dent, as  well  as  the  Professor  who  was  the  acting  President 
before  Dr.  Hill’s  election,  and  who  has  been  four  years  in  a 
position  where  such  expressions,  if  “ familiarly  applied,” 
would  be  likely  to  reach  him,  has  never  heard  one  of  them, 
or  any  of  a similar  character.  From  such  remarks  by  two 


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or  three  persons  to  draw  so  sweeping  a charge  against  the 
laws  and  administration  of  the  Library  as  the  Report  con- 
tains is  not  fair.  One  might  as  well  record  the  universal 
unpopularity  of  a Professor  from  the  captious  remarks  of 
two  or  three  students,  who  wanted  a little  more  liberty  than 
the  wholesome  laws  of  the  College  would  allow.  And  with 
still  more  propriety  might  there  have  been  a clamor  against 
the  vexatious,  though  .under  the  circumstances  judicious, 
administration  of  the  Library,  when  a student  was  required 
to  go  on  one  day  and  put  down  his  name  for  a book,  and,  if 
it  happened  to  be  out  or  he  failed  to  call  for  it  the  next 
morning,  to  go  without  one  for  a week. 

From  high  authority  I am  informed  that  the  only  appli- 
cations for  more  freedom  of  access  which  liavd  been  de- 
serving of  serious  consideration  have  come  from  the  Col- 
lege Faculty,  and  that  they  related  particularly  to  the 
winter  vacations,  Cambridge  being  nearly  deserted  by  them 
in  the  summer.  From  what  has  been  stated  I think  it 
mtist  appear  that  they  have  been  met  as  far  as  the  highest 
interests  of  the  Library  at  present  justify,  and  I believe, 
too,  to  the  general  satisfaction  of  the  applicants.  To  test 
the  importance  to  be  attached  to  applications  for  extra 
hours  of  admission,  a memorandum  was  made  of  the  num- 
ber who  in  the  last  winter  vacation  but  one  came  to  Gore 
Hall  for  literary  purposes  in  the  extra  afternoons,  and  the 
average  did  not  exceed  two  for  each  day.  And  this  aver- 
age appears  to  have  been  made  up  of  three  persons,  one  of 
whom  came  but  once,  and  the  other  two  occasionally,  one 
of  them  pretty  regularly.  Last  summer  vacation  nobody 
came.  Last  winter  vacation  the  average  was  not  equiva- 
lent to  more  than  one  person  on  each  of  the  extra  days. 
And  these  persons  were  engaged  in  such  important  studies 
that,  if  they  had  made  application  to  the  Librarian,  they 
could  have  been  admitted  at  hours  previously  agreed  on. 
To  throw  open  the  Library  in  vacations  to  everybody  for 
the  purpose  of  accommodating  so  few,  who  can  be  accom- 
4 


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modated,  too,  without  it,  is  asking  too  much.  And  if  the 
experience  of  three  vacations  is  a fair  test  of  the  use  which 
would  be  made  of  the  Library  for  literary  purposes,  or  even 
if  the  use  of  it  were  to  be  quadrupled,  it  is  obvious  that  the 
Closing  of  it  as  much  as  it  is  in  vacations,  particularly 
when  so  many  persons  are  absent  from  Cambridge,  and 
there  are  such  means  for  study  as  the  Boston  libraries  fur- 
nish, cannot  “ dislocate  many  plans  by  enforcing  inaction 
in  what  should  be  the  busiest  time,”  nor  be  “ felt  as  a 
public  calamity  in  the  world  of  letters.” 

There  is  no  college  library  on  the  Continent  which  is 
open  so  many  hours,  or  is  so  liberal  in  its  accommodations, 
as  Harvard.  And  as  College  officers,  the  officers  of  the 
Library,  who  are  tasked  very  severely,  and  are  every  year 
repeatedly  prostrated  with  exhaustion,  ought  to  have  the 
privilege  of  relaxation,  like  other  College  officers.  If  they 
are  willing  to  forego  this  privilege  to  some  extent  for  the 
purpose  of  expediting  work  which  cannot  be  accomplished 
in  term-time,  they  ought  not  while  doing  it  to  be  required 
or  expected  to  open  the  doors  at  all  hours  to  everybody. 
Their  time  is  their  own,  and  should  be  held  equally  sacred, 
whether  in  their  private  studies  or  in  Gore  Hall.  If  they 
do  not  come  to  the  Library,  they  of  course  are  not  there  to 
admit  people.  If  they  come  when  they  are  not  required 
to,  no  one  but  the  President,  who  has  keys  and  can  intro- 
duce visitors  when  he  pleases,  ought  to  expect  to  be  admit- 
ted. The  preparation  of  the  contents  of  the  Library  for 
use,  particularly  when  it  is  made  gratuitously,  should  be 
allowed  to  take  precedence  of  everything  else. 

The  appointment  of  an  assistant  or  substitute  temporarily 
for  the  vacations  would  not  meet  the  emergency.  It  would 
be  a nuisance,  to  say  nothing  of  the  inexpediency  of  trans- 
ferring to  another  the  Librarian’s  responsibilities.  The 
inconveniences  from  free  access,  so  far  as  they  arise  from 
the  unfortunate  construction  of  Gore  Hall,  would  still  con- 
tinue. And  to  relieve  the  Library  officers  in  any  consider- 


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able  degree,  the  substitute  must  be  so  familiar  with  the 
details  of  the  mode  of  administering  the  Library,  as  well 
as  with  its  contents,  that  the  officers,  if  present,  need  not 
be  called  on,  or  if  absent,  that  the  scholars  who,  according 
to  the  theory  of  the  Report,  would  be  likely  to  crowd  into 
Gore  Hall,  could  be  pointed  not  only  to  the  books  which 
obviously  belong  to  the  subjects  which  they  are  severally 
investigating,  but  to  the  hidden  wells  of  wisdom  which  can 
be  known  only  after  long  familiarity  with  the  Library.  The 
alternative  would  be  to  have  a person  inadequately  quali- 
fied to  perform  the  duties,  or  to  have  an  extra  assistant, 
who  should  become  qualified  by  long  experience  in  term- 
time.  If  the  latter,  humanity,  as  well  as  the  interest  of  the 
Library,  would  seem  to  require  that  in  vacations  he,  in 
common  with  the  other  Library  officers,  should  have  oppor- 
tunity for  relief  from  labor.  To  a hard  student,  who,  to 
accomplish  his  object,  is  willing  to  put  himself  to  a little 
inconvenience,  there  is  always  a way  of  getting  access  to 
the  Library  in  vacations,  except  on  Saturdays.  If  his  case 
is  not  urgent  enough  to  prompt  him  to  make  some  exertion 
and  fix  on  a precise  hour  for  admission  and  abide  by  it,  the 
presumption  is  that  the  call  is  not  urgent  enough  to  justify 
the  interruption. 

It  is  with  pain  that  I have  been  led  to  make  these  state- 
ments, from  which,  if  I had  consulted  my  personal  feelings, 
I should  have  shrunk,  both  because  of  the  prominence 
which  it  seemed  necessary  to  give  to  the  present  adminis- 
tration of  the  Library,  and  because  I felt  that,  if  I spoke 
plainly,  I should  have  to  controvert  the  statements  of  some 
to  whom  I am  under  personal  obligations  which  can  never 
be  forgotten.  But  believing  that,  if  these  statements  had 
been  fully  considered  by  the  last  Committee,  the  recom- 
mendation contained  in  their  Report  would  not  have  been 
made,  or  at  least  would  have  been  deferred  to  a more  con- 
venient season,  I felt  bound  by  my  position  to  defend  an 
institution,  with  which  my  life  lias  been  identified  for  nearly 


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a quarter  of  a century,  from  charges  which,  circulated  among 
the  captious,  into  whose  hands  the  Report  may  fall,  are  likely 
to  do  essential  injury. 

The  statements,  however,  which  have  been  made,  show 
the  necessity  for  better  library  accommodations,  where  the 
work  can  be  carried  on  without  interruption,  while  the  Li- 
brary itself  can  be  freely  used  without  interfering  with  it. 
Gore  Hall  is  virtually  but  one  large  room,  in  which  all 
company  is  received,  library-work  done,  literary  researches 
made,  and  any  who  are  inclined  to  be  literary  idlers  can 
spend  their  time.  There  can  be  no  privacy  in  it.  If  the 
Librarian  retires  to  an  alcove  to  examine  accounts,  to  an- 
swer letters,  or  to  do  anything  which  requires  seclusion,  he 
is  liable  at  any  moment  to  be  called  away,  and  there  is  no 
certainty  that  his  papers  will  not  be  examined,  read,  or 
thrown  into  confusion  before  he  returns.  There  is  no 
place  where  literary  researches  can  be  made  in  quiet.  Ev- 
ery footstep  sounds  through  the  building.  Common  con- 
versation is  heard  everywhere.  Notwithstanding  all  the 
care  which  is  taken  to  talk  with  suppressed  voices,  the 
tones  in  which  the  merits  of  the  engravings  in  the  Gray 
Collection  in  the  gallery  are  discussed  frequently  inter- 
fere seriously  for  hours  in  the  forenoon  with  the  reading 
and  the  studying  below.  The  continual  rustle  and  moving 
among  visitors,  and  the  noise  which  is  inevitable  in  pro- 
curing and  returning  books  in  such  a building,  add  to  the 
confusion,  and  distract  the  reader’s  attention. 

All  the  alcoves  have  been  divided  which  can  be  advan- 
tageously. Several  of  these  small  alcoves  are  occupied  by 
the  persons  employed  to  do  the  work  of  the  Library.  And 
each  person  shuts  up  several  hundred,  in  some  alcoves 
1,000  or  1,500  volumes,  to  get  at  which  it  is  necessary  for 
the  occupant  to  rise,  move  the  chair,  frequently  the  table, 
and  remain  standing  till  the  steps  are  adjusted,  the  book 
found,  and  sometimes  even  consulted ; and  then  to  replace 
everything  before  resuming  work.  Considering  the  num- 


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ber  of  alcoves  thus  occupied,  the  many  calls  for  books  in 
them,  the  time  lost,  and  the  discomfort  which  is  caused, 
the  evil  is  serious. 

To  this  it  may  be  added,  that  a great  part  of  the  area  of 
the  building  is  unavoidably  occupied  with  tables  on  which, 
surrounded  by  company,  it  is  necessary  to  do  a large  por- 
tion of  the  library  work,  which  ought  to  be  not  only  beyond 
the  reach,  but  out  of  the  sight,  of  all  but  the  operatives. 

Experience,  too,  has  shown  that  the  light  is  very  injuri- 
ous to  the  sight.  The  sweeping  currents  through  the  Hall 
in  winter  are  found  to  imperil  health,  and  cause  the  severe 
sickness  of  some  whose  duties  require  their  constant  attend- 
ance. As  the  walls  of  Gore  Hall  are  single,  the  conden- 
sation of  moisture  on  the  inside  dampens,  and  is  gradually, 
but  surely,  in  some  parts  of  it,  destroying  the  books.  In 
one  of  the  alcoves  a volume  of  newspapers  was  found  as 
wet  as  a printer  makes  his  paper  before  putting  it  on  his 
press.  Within  ten  days  after  the  discontinuance  of  the 
tires  this  spring,  the  bricks  in  the  basement  were  covered 
with  a heavy  green  mould.  On  taking  out,  a few  months 
ago,  some  Catalogues  which  had  been  there  for  some  time, 
they  crumbled  to  pieces.  The  dampness  of  the  cellar  with 
its  deleterious  combinations  rolls  in,  whenever  the  doors 
are  opened.  It  also  follows  up  the  walls  and  affects  to 
some  extent  the  whole  building.  Regard  both  for  the 
dead  and  the  living,  who  have  spent  their  money,  made 
great  sacrifices,  and  labored  diligently,  during  a century, 
to  accumulate  such  treasures  as  could  never  be  replaced, 
justly  demands  that  they  be  kept  from  even  a suspicion 
that  they  may  suffer  from  indifference  and  neglect.  Any 
measures  which  would  lead  to  the  erection  of  a suitable 
and  capacious,  but  not  ostentatious  building,  would  confer 
an  immense  benefit  on  the  world  of  letters,  and  raise  a 
lasting  monument  to*  the  memory  of  the  benefactors. 

Your  obedient  servant, 

JOHN  LANGDON  SIBLEY,  Librarian . 


DONORS  TO  THE  LIBRARY, 

FROM  10  JULY,  1863,  TO  14  JULY,  1864.* 


Benjamin  T.  Hoyt  . 

Rev.  Josiah  G.  Davis 
Dean  Dudley  . 

George  Convers  Francis  . 

Rev.  Nathaniel  G.  Clark,  Prof. 
Henry  Tuke  Parker,  LL.  B. 
Henry  P.  Torsey,  LL.  D.,  Presi 
Wesleyan  Seminary, 

Rev.  John  L.  Locke 
Richard  Green  Parker 
James  Truesdell  Hildreth 
Francis  Alexander  Marden 
Class  of  18G3  . 

Adams,  Sampson,  & Co.  . 
Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Institute 
Edward  Jarvis,  M.  D. 

Hercules  Warren  Fay 
B.  Westermann  & Co. 

Samuel  Francis  Smith,  D.  D. 
Charles  Sumner,  LL.  D.  . 
Samuel  Abbott  Green,  M.  D. 
Henry  James  Clark,  Professor 
St.  Louis  University 
Horatio  Robinson  Storer,  M.  D 
Mrs.  George  Abbe  . 

John  H.  Pearsol 
Alexander  Harris 
James  Black 
Elias  Barr  & Co. 

John  Baers,  Sons 
Legislative  Assembly  of  Canada 
Librarian,  . 

Rev.  Edwin  M.  Stone 
Ticknor  and  Fields  . 

John  C.  Burroughs,  D.  D. 

University, 

Charles  Eliot  Norton 


H.  U.  1854, 
in  Union  Coll., 
H.  U.  1842, 
dent  of  the  Maine 


II.  U.  1817, 
H.  U.  1863, 
H.  U.  1863, 


H.  U.  1826, 
H.  U.  1862, 

H.  U.  1829, 
H.  U.  1830, 
H.  U.  1851, 


H.  U.  1850, 


, Alpheus  Todd, 


President  of  the 
H.  U.  1846, 


Greencastle,  Ind. 
Amherst,  N.  H. 
Boston. 

Cambridge. 
Schenectady,  N.  Y. 
London,  Eng. 

Readville,  Me. 

South  Weston,  Me. 
Cambridge. 

Cincinnati,  O. 

West  Windham,  N.  H. 
Harvard  University. 
Boston. 

Troy,  N.  Y. 
Dorchester.  * 

New  York,  N.  Y. 

New  York,  N.  Y. 
Newton. 

Boston. 

U.  S.  Army. 

Plarvard  University. 
St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Boston. 

Windham,  Ct. 
Lancaster,  Pa. 
Lancaster,  Pa. 
Lancaster,  Pa. 
Lancaster,  Pa. 
Lancaster,  Pa. 

Quebec,  C.  E. 
Providence,  R.  I. 
Boston. 

Chicago,  111. 
Cambridge. 


* This  List  does  not  include  the  names  of  the  donors  after  14  July,  1864,  as 
they  belong  to  the  next  Annual  Report.  Some  of  the  donors  have  made  several 
donations,  though  their  names  appear  but  once,  and  the  names  of  some  have 
not  been  ascertained. 

The  List  which  should  have  been  appended  to  the  last  Annual  Report  was 
lost  after  it  passed  from  the  Librarian’s  hands. 


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Hiram  Ewers  Tallmadge  . . H.  U.  1854 

Daniel  Coit  Gilman,  Librarian  of  Yale  College 
University  of  McGill  College 
Mrs.  Phebe  Anne  Hanaford 
Worcester  Free  Library  . 

Charles  Beck  . 

City  Council,  Joseph  W.  Tucker,  City  Clerk 
University  of  the  Pacific  . 

Sever  and  Francis  . 

Rhode  Island  General  Assembly 
Rev.  Abner  Morse  . 

Henry  Wilson,  U.  S.  S.  . 

Peter  Thacher  . 

Richard  Fuller,  D.  D.  . . H.  U.  1824 

Edward  L.  Adams  . 

J.  Smith  Homans 
Library  of  Congress  . 

Alexander  Dallas  Bache,  LL.  D.,  Superintend- 
ent of  the  U.  S.  Coast  Survey. 

Charles  Ammi  Cutter  . . H.  U.  1855, 

Franklin  Benjamin  Sanborn  . H.  U.  1855, 
Henry  Austin  Whitney  . . H.  U.  1846, 

Andrew  H.  Green,  Comptroller  of  the  Central 

Park, 

Hubbard  Winslow  Bryant  .... 

F.  W.  Christern  ...... 

Lewis  H.  Steiner,  M.  D.  . 

James  Lenox  ....... 

George  Livermore  ...... 

Charles  Frederic  Bradford  .... 

James  Campbell  ...... 

Rollo  and  Adam 

E.  Ryerson,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  Chief  Superintend- 
ent of  Education,  ..... 
New  Hampshire  Legislature  .... 
Asaph  Hall,  Prof,  at  U.  S.  Naval  Observatory, 
Charles  Dexter  Cleveland,  U.  S.  Consul  at 
J.  A.  Taber 

William  Phinehas  Upham 
Frank*  Russell  Stoddard  . 

Henry  Ingersoll  Bowditch,  M.  D. 

Jackson  Professor  in  . 

Andrew  P.  Peabody,  D.  D , LL. 

Plummer  Professor  in 
Asa  Gray,  LL.  D., 

Fisher  Professor  in  . 

Redwood  Library 
Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  M.  D 
Park  man  Professor  in 
King’s  College  . 

Rev.  John  Lewis  Russell  . . H.  U.  1828, 

Rev.  Charles  Henry  Brigham  . H.  U.  1839, 
John  Barton  Foster, 

Professor  in  Waterville  College, 


H,  U.  1856, 
II.  U.  1866, 
H.  U.  1828, 

D.  H.  U.  1826, 


H.  U.  1829, 


Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

New  Haven,  Ct. 

Montreal,  C.  E. 

Reading. 

Worcester. 

Cambridge. 

Roxbury. 

Santa  Clara,  Cab 
Cambridge. 
Providence,  R.  I. 
Boston. 

Natick. 

Rockland,  Me. 
Baltimore,  Md. 
Boston. 

New  York,  N.  Y. 
Washington,  D.  C, 


Harvard  Col.  Library. 
Concord. 

Boston. 

New  York,  N.  Y. 
Portland,  Me. 

New  York,  N.  Y. 
New  York,  N.  Y. 
New  York,  N.  Y. 
Cambridge. 

Roxbury. 

Toronto,  C.  W. 
Toronto,  C.  W. 

Toronto,  C.  W. 
Concord,  N.  H. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Cardiff,  Wales. 
Colchester,  Eng. 
Salem. 

Plymouth. 

Harvard  University. 

Harvard  University. 

Harvard  University. 
Newport,  R.  I. 

Harvard  University. 
Winsor,  N.  S. 

Salem. 

Taunton. 

Waterville,  Me. 


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H.  U. 
H.  U. 

H.  U. 
H.  U. 


H.  U. 
H.  U. 


H.  U. 
H.  U. 

H.  U. 
H.  U. 


University  of  . 

Sampson  R.  Urbino  . 

John  William  Pitt  Abbot,  LL.  B. 

Samuel  Craft  Davis  . 

New  Hampshire  Historical  Society 
William  Francis  Allen 
Horace  Davis  .... 

Miss  Katherine  Hill  . 

Rev.  John  G.  Adams 
George  Henry  Preble 
John  Lowell,  LL.  B.  . . , 

Frederick  Henry  Hedge,  D.  D. 

Professor  in 

Albert  William  Edmands  . 

Chamber  of  Commerce 
Eugenio  Alberi 

James  Walker,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.  . 

Rev.  J.  D.  Shane 
John  Murray  Brown 
Wolcott  Gibbs,  M.  D.,  Rumford  Professor 
Miss  Caroline  Eustis  Peabody  . 

Miss  Helen  Townsend  Peabody 
Henry  Gardner  Denny,  LL.  B. 

Nathaniel  Colver  Leeds  . 

George  Ticknor,  LL.  D.  . 

Rev.  William  Stevens  Perry 
Henry  Warren  Torrey 
McLean  Professor  in  . 

Rev.  C.  C.  Torrey  . 

Nicholas  Emery  Soule,  M.  D.  . 

Rev.  George  Boardman  Hubbard 
Edwin  Pliny  Seaver 
Thomas  Robinson  Harris  . 

Royal  Imperial  Geological  Society 
Thomas  Hill,  D.  D.,  LL.  D. 

President  of  .. 

William  Munroe  Courtis  . 

Thomas  Waterman  . 

William  Low  Pillsbury 

A.  Peries 

Edward  Ellenborough  Law 
George  Merrill 
George  Cheyne  Shattuck  . 

Ilersey  Professor  in  . 

John  Kerr  Tiffany  . 

Rev.  Charles  Ansorge 

A.  Williams  & Co.  . 

Horace  Parker  Chandler  . 

Arthur  Lawrence 
Sebastian  Ferris  Streeter  . 

George  Thomas  Davis,  LL.  B. 

B.  O.  Peirce  .... 

Rev.  Charles  Frederick  Hudson 
W.  S.  W.  Ruschenberger,  M.  D. 


1827, 

1863, 

1851, 

1841, 


1843, 

1825, 


II.  U.  1862, 


H.  U.  1814, 

H.  U.  1863, 
in 


1852, 

1865, 

1854* 

1833, 


H.  U.  1845, 
H.  U.  1862, 

IL  U.  1843* 


H.  U. 
H.  U. 
H.  U. 


1864, 

■4864, 

1863, 


H.  U. 
H.  U. 


H.  U. 


H.  U. 
H.  U. 
H.  U. 
H.  U. 


1819, 

1831, 

1865, 

1864, 

1863, 

1831, 

1829, 


Rostock,  Germany. 
Boston. 

Westford. 

St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Concord,  N.  H. 

West  Newton. 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Cambridge. 
Providence,  R.  I. 
Commander  U.  S.  N. 
Boston. 

Harvard  University. 
Cambridge. 

New  York,  N.  Y. 
Florence,  Italy. 
Cambridge. 
Cincinnati,  O. 
Belmont. 

Harvard  University. 

Cambridge. 

Cambridge. 

Boston. 

Cambridgeport. 

Boston. 

Watertown. 

* 

Harvard  University. 
Westford,  Vt. 
Louisville,  Ky. 

New  Haven,  Ct. 
Northborough. 

New  York,  N.  Y. 
Vienna,  Austria. 

Harvard  University. 
Marblehead. 

Boston. 

Derry,  N.  H. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Boston. 

Harvard  University. 
Worcester. 

Chicago,  111. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Baltimore,  Md. 
Greenfield. 

Beverly. 

Cambridge. 

U.  S.  Navy. 

r 


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John  Morison  Pinkerton,  LL.  B. 

Clement  Hugh  Hill  

Rev.  Caleb  Davis  Bradlee  . H.  U.  1852, 
William  Augustus  Putnam  Willard  . 

Alpheus  Augustus  Keen  . . H.  U.  1849, 

Professor  in  Tufts  College, .... 

Bowdoin  College 

William  Dwight  Whitney,  Prof,  in  Yale  Coll.,  . 
Rev.  Frederic  Augustus  Whitney  H.  U.  1833, 

Asa  Peaslee  Tenney,  M.  D 

John  Johnston,  Prof,  in  Wesleyan  University,  . 
Massachusetts  Legislature  .... 
Nathaniel  Leech  Hooper  . . H.  U.  1846, 

Dartmouth  College 

Massachusetts  Medical  Society  .... 
Richard  Wenman  Swan  . . H.  U.  1842, 

U.  S.  Congress 

Alonzo  Bond  Wentworth 

U.  S.  Department  of  State  .... 
F.  O.  Weigel  ....... 

Royal  Society 

His  Excellency  M.  M.  Lisboa,  Brazilian  Minister, 

J.  Watts  De  Peyster 

U.  S.  Treasury  Department  .... 
Sir  Henry  James,  Col.  of  Engineers,  &c.,  &c.,  . 
Rev.  William  Orne  White  . H.  U.  1840, 

Joshua  R.  Preston 

City  Government  ...... 

Horace  L.  Hastings 

Society  of  Natural  History  in  . 

George  Washington  Wales  .... 

Andrew  Robeson,  S.  B.  . 

Samuel  Gilman  Brown,  D.  D.,  Professor  in  Dart- 
mouth College, 

John  Molloy,  Librarian,  &c 

Ezra  Abbot,  Assistant  Librarian  in  . 

Truman  Henry  Safford  . . H.  U.  1854, 

Assistant  Observer  in  .... 

Josiah  Parsons  Cooke  . . H.  U.  1848, 

Erving  Professor  in 

Mrs.  Jane  Anthony  Eames  .... 
Francis  Henry  Brown,  M.  D.  . H.  U.  1857, 

Charles  O.  Boutelle 

James  D.  Butler,  Prof.  University 'of  Wisconsin, 

E.  E.  Beardsley,  D.  D 

Oberlin  College 

Mrs.  Emeline  P.  (Eaton)  Morse 

Robert  Charles  Winthrop,  LL.  D.  H.  U.  1828, 

University  College 

Morrill  Wyman,  M.  D.  . . H.  U.  1833, 

Historical  Society  . . . 

U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture 

Mrs.  William  Sturgis 


Boston. 

Boston. 

Roxbury. 

Cambridge. 

Somerville. 
Brunswick,  Me. 

New  Haven,  Ct. 
Brighton. 
Jacksonville,  111. 
Middletown,  Ct. 
Boston. 

Boston. 

Hanover,  N.  H. 
Boston. 

Albany,  N.  Y. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Cambridge. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Leipzig,  Germany. 
London,  Eng. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Tivoli,  N.  Y. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Southampton,  Eng. 
Keene,  N.  H. 
Boston. 

Lowell. 

Boston. 

Harvard  University. 
Boston. 

Newport,  R.  I. 

Hanover,  N.  H. 
Toronto,  C.  W. 
Harvard  University. 

Harvard  University. 

Harvard  University. 
Concord,  N.  H. 
Cambridge. 

U.  S.  Coast  Survey. 
Madison,  Wis. 

New  Haven,  Ct. 
Oberlin,  O. 
Harpswell,  Me. 
Boston. 

Toronto,  C.  W. 
Cambridge. 

Chicago,  111. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Boston. 


5 


34 


H.  U.  1864, 
H.  U.  1833, 


H.  U.  1819, 
H.  U.  1854, 
H.  U.  1854, 


C.  Izard  Maceuen 
Gould  and  Lincoln  . 

Henry  Harrison  Sprague  . 

J.  Russell  Smith 
Jeffries  Wyman,  M.  D. 

Hersey  Professor  in  . _ . 

Benjamin  Silliman,  Jr.,  Prof,  in  Yale  College, 
Historical  Society 
Samuel  Phillips 
Payson  Elliott  Tucker 
Benjamin  Joy  Jeffries,  M.  D.  . 

Society  for  Medical  Observation 

Williams  College  ...... 

B.  P.  Johnson,  Sec’y  N.  Y.  Agricultural  Society, 
Thomas  A.  Doyle  ...... 

James  Winthrop  Harris  ..... 

Miss  Mary  Elizabeth  Plumer  .... 

Rev.  Elias  Nason 

John  Harvard  Ellis  . 

George  Bancroft,  LL.  D.  . 

Miss  Mary  Lydia  Bolles  . 

Redwood  Library 
Rev.  Horatio  Alger  . 

Charles  Folsom 

His  Royal  Highness  the  Prince  of  Wales 
William  V.  Spencer 
Rev.  Ferdinand  Cartwright  Ewer 
Charles  Alexander  Nelson 
Gen.  William  Williams 
James  Orchard  Halliwell,  LL.  D. 

Rev.  Washington  Gilbert  . 

Rev.  Frederic  West  Holland  . 

C.  F.  Duren  .... 

William  H.  Dennet 
Charles  Adams  Allen 
George  Jacob  Abbot 
Rev.  R.  G.  Wilder  . 

William  B.  Shedd  . 

Rev.  Samuel  Abbot  Smith 
Beloit  College  .... 

Tompkins  & Company 
F.  H.  Berick  .... 

Rev.  Samuel  Lee 
Rev.  Alexander  McKenzie 
American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign 

Missions 

Thomas  S.  Kirkbride,  M.  D. 

Philetus  B.  Spear,  Prof,  in  Madison  University, 
Henry  Tolman  & Company  .... 

Proprietors  of  the  Congregational  Quarterly 
E.  O.  Haven,  D.  D.,  President  of  the  University 
of  Michigan  ...... 

Franklin  Chapman  Hill 


H.  U.  1862, 
H.  U.  1817, 


II.  U.  1825, 
H.  U.  1813, 


H.  U.  1848, 
H.  U.  1860, 


H.  U.  1831, 


H.  U.  1858, 
H.  U.  1835, 


H.  U.  1849, 


H.  U.  1859, 


Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Boston. 

Athol. 

London,  Eng. 

Harvard  University. 
New  Haven,  Ct. 
New  York,  N.  Y. 
Newburyport. 
Cambridge. 

Boston. 

Boston. 
Williamstown. 
Albany,  N.  Y. 
Providence,  R.  I. 
Cambridge. 

Epping,  N.  H. 
Exeter,  N.  H. 
Charlestown. 

New  York,  N.  Y. 
New  London,  Ct. 
Newport,  R.  I. 

South  Natick. 
Cambridge. 

London,  Eng. 
Boston. 

New  York,  N.  Y. 

U.  S.  Army. 
Norwich,  Ct. 
London,  Eng. 
Newton. 

Cambridge. 

Bangor,  Me. 

Boston. 

Meadville,  Pa. 

W ashington,  D.  C. 
Kolapoor,  India. 
Malden. 

West  Cambridge. 
Beloit,  Wis. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

New  Ipswich,  N.  H. 
Augusta,  Me. 

Boston. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Hamilton,  N.  Y. 
Boston. 

Boston. 

Ann  Arbor,  Mich. 
Cambridge. 


35 


H.  U.  1850, 
H.  U.  1859, 

H.  U.  1838* 


H.  U.  1832, 
H.  U.  1840, 


H.  U.  1851, 

H.  U.  1837, 
H.  U.  1819, 
H.  U.  1829, 


British  Association  for  the  Advancement  of 

Science 

Library  Committee  of  the  Corporation  of 
Henry  Ayer  True,  M.  D.  . 

William  Ellery  Copeland  . . H.  U.  1860, 

John  Gorham  Palfrey,  D.  D.,LL.  D.  H.  U.  1815, 
Nathaniel  Bradley  Baker,  . H.  U.  1839, 
Adjutant-General  of  Iowa, 

John  D.  Baldwin,  M.  C.  . 

Rev.  Samuel  Dana  Hosmer 
Charles  Sanders  Peirce,  S.  B. 

R.  C.  Ingraham 
James  Russell  Lowell 
Smith  Professor  in 

Mrs.  Louisa  Lee  Waterhouse,  by  bequest, 

Rev.  Charles  Timothy  Brooks 
Samuel  Kneeland,  M.  D.  . 

G.  T.  Kingston,  Director  of  the  Observatory  of 
the  University  . 

Robert  Morris  Copeland 
Samuel  Bates  . 

Richard  Henry  Dana,  LL.  B. 

Winslow  Lewis,  M.  D. 

Benjamin  Peirce,  LL.  D. 

Perkins  Professor  in 
Charles  Franklin  Dunbar 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Cushman  Tilton 
Iram  Smith,  President  of  the  Providence 
ference  Seminary, 

George  Prince  .... 

Charles  Louis  Flint  . 

James  Augustus  Dorr 
Thomas  H.  Dudley,  U.  S.  Consul 
Massachusetts  State  Library 
Mrs.  Susanna  Sarah  Folsom 
Simon  Newcomb,  S.  B.,  Professor  at  the 
Naval  Observatory,  . 

Rev.  Horatio  Wood  . 

City  Government 
Charles  Hastings  Allen,  M.  D.  . 

Freeman  Norton  Blake,  LL.  B. 

Francis  James  Child 

Boylston  Professor  in 
Society  of  Antiquaries 
Frederick  Muller 

Royal  Netherlands  Meteorological  Institute 
Alexander  S.  Taylor 
Society  of  Arts 
John  Albee 

Henry  Fitch  Jenks  . . H.  U.  1863, 

Miss  Caroline  Matilda  Fitch 
Augustus  Coggswell  Robbins 
Charles  H.  Morse 


H.  U. 


H.  U. 
H.  U. 


H.  U. 
H.  U. 


H.  U. 


1851, 

Con- 


1849, 

1832, 


u.  s. 

1827* 

1831, 

1846, 


England. 

London,  Eng. 

Marion,  O. 

Roxbury. 

Cambridge. 

Davenport,  Iowa. 
Worcester. 
Nantucket. 
Cambridge. 

New  Bedford. 

Harvard  University. 
Cambridge. 

Newport,  R.  I. 

U.  S.  Army. 

Toronto,  C.  W. 
Roxbury. 

Harrisburg,  Pa. 
Cambridge. 

Boston. 

Harvard  University. 
Boston. 

Portsmouth,  N.  H. 

Providence,  R.  I. 
Bath,  Me. 

Boston. 

New  York,  N.  Y. 
Liverpool,  Eng. 
Boston. 

Cambridge. 

Washington,  D.  C. 
Lowell. 

Lowell. 

Cambridgeport. 
Washington,  D.  C. 

Harvard  University. 
London,  Eng. 
Amsterdam,  Holland. 
Utrecht,  Holland. 
Monterey,  Cal. 
London,  Eng. 
Cambridge. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Brunswick,  Me. 
Washington,  D.  C. 


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Joel  Munsell  ....... 

Rev.  Stephen  Wright  ..... 

Edward  Sprague  Rand,  LL.  B.  H.  U.  1855, 
John  Henry  Bradbury  ..... 

Miss  Augusta  Bradbury 

Charles  W.  Moore 

John  Austin  Stevens  . . H.  U.  1855, 

Mrs.  Albert  Fearing  ..... 

Samuel  Hooper,  M.  C. 

Nautical  Almanac  Office 

Rev.  James  Kendall  Hosmer  . H.  U.  1855, 
Alexander  Emanuel  Rodolf  Agassiz  H.  U.  1855, 
Benjamin  Apthorp  Gould  . H.  U.  1844, 

Young  Men’s  Association 

Jonathan  Edwards  . . . . 

J.  M.  Toner,  M.  D 

John  Bigelow  . . . . H.  U.  1861, 

Mrs.  Sophia  Appleton  Haven  .... 
John  R.  Meigs,  Lt.  Engineers,  .... 

Isaac  Lea,  LL.  D 

Public  Library  ....... 

U.  States  Naval  Observatory  .... 

Jared  Sparks,  LL.  D.  . . H.  U.  1815, 

Roger  Brown  Hildreth  . . H.  U.  1843, 

William  Gowans 

Willard  Parker,  M.  D.  . . H.  U.  1826, 

Prof,  in  Coll,  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  . 
Evert  A.  Duyckinck  ..... 

Thomas  F.  De  Yoe 

Horace  Webster,  LL.  D.,  Principal  of  the  Free 

Academy, 

American  Female  Guardian  Society 

David  T.  Valentine 

City  Government 

Mayo  Williamson  Hazeltine  . H.  U.  1862, 
Henry  A.  Wise,  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Ordnance, 

Vestry  of  Christ  Church 

Henry  Williamson  Haynes  . H.  U.  1851, 
Charles  Benjamin  Richardson  .... 
Charles  Minot  . . . . H.  U.  1829, 

William-Sumner  Appleton  . H.  U.  1860, 
Eagle  Lock  Co.  (through  George  Calvin  Magoun) 
Mrs.  Nathaniel  Appleton  Haven,  Jr. 

George  Washington  Hosmer,  D.  D.  H.  U.  1826, 
Seth  Thomas  Clock  Company  (through  C.  G. 

Magoun) 

Government  of  the  Grand  Duchy  of 

John  Joseph  May 

U.  S.  Sanitary  Commission  (through  F.  N. 

Knapp,  H.  U.  1843,) 
Nathaniel  Prentice  Banks,  LL.  D.  . 

Nelson  Joseph  Wheeler  . . H.  U.  1860, 

Edwin  M.  Snow,  M.  D.  . 


Albany,  N.  Y. 
Westport,  N.  Y. 
Dedham. 

Cambridge. 

Cambridge. 

Boston. 

New  York,  N.  Y. 
Boston. 

Boston. 

Cambridge. 

Deerfield. 

Cambridge. 
Cambridge. 
Milwaukee,  Wis. 
Troy,  N.  Y. 
Washington,  D.  C. 

U.  S.  Army. 
Cambridge. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Charlestown. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Cambridge. 
Springfield. 

New  York,  N.  Y. 

New  York,  N.  Y. 
New  York,  N.  Y. 
New  York,  N.  Y. 

New  York,  N.  Y. 
New  York,  N.  Y. 
New  York,  N.  Y. 
New  York,  N.  Y. 
Oxford,  Eng. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Longwood. 

Boston. 

New  York,  N.  Y. 
New  York,  N.  Y. 
Boston. , 

Terryville,  Ct. 
Portsmouth,  N.  H. 
Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Plymouth  Hollow,  Ct. 
Oldenburg,  Germany. 
Dorchester. 

Washington,  D.  C. 
New  Orleans,  La. 
Skowhegan,  Me. 
Providence,  R.  I. 


American  and  Foreign  Christian  Union  . 

John  Henry  Hall  ...... 

John  Howard  Marsden,  Professor  in  the  Univer- 
sity at 

Charles  Greely  Loring,  LL.  D.  H.  U.  1812, 

James  Earle  Butts,  Jr 

Miss  Lucy  Downing  Sawyer  .... 
William  Watson  Goodwin  . H.  U.  1851, 
Eliot  Professor  in  .... 

Koyal  University  Library  (Prof.  K.  Hoeck,  Libr.) 
George  Dexter,  LL.  B.  . . H.  U.  1858, 

Jean  Baptiste  Roudanez  and  Arnold  Bertonneau 
John  Swett,  Sup’t  of  Public  Instruction,  . 
Philosophical  and  Literary  Society  . 

Bodleian  Library 

City  Government  ...... 

James  Huntington  . . H.  U.  1852, 

George  Nichols  . . H.  U.  1828, 

John  Dean,  M.  D. 

Arthur  Mason  Knapp  . . H.  U.  1863, 

Society  of  Natural  History  .... 
Charles  Mason,  LL.  B.  H.  U.  1834, 

Pliny  Earle  Chase  ...  II.  U.  1839, 

Thomas  Clarkson  Parrish  . . H.  U.  1867, 

Sons  of  Rhode  Island 

Frederick  Goddard  Tuckerman,  LL.  B.  . 

Henry  B.  Dawson 

Thomas  Bulfinch  . . . H.  U.  1814, 

Arthur  George  Sedgwick  . H.  U.  1864, 

City  Government  (S.  F.  McCleary,  City  Clerk, 

H.  U.  1841,) 

Smithsonian  Institution  ..... 

John  Morissey,  Sergeant-at-Arms 

Joseph  White,  Secretary  of  the  Mass.  Board  of 

Education 

William  Schouler,  Adjutant-General  of  Mass.  . 
Oliver  Warner,  Secretary  of  State  of  Mass. 
Bowdoin  College  ...... 

Mercantile  Library  Association 
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